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Great recent work from Sanika Vaidya and Knut Drescher Lab
Mammalian innate immunity recognizes bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan (PG) via TLR2
Turns out multiple bacteria also sense PG from their lysed compatriots as a danger signal to trigger biofilm formation!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Biozentrum, University of Basel
Biozentrum, University of Basel
Master in Physics of Life -
apply by April 30. π
Iβm back in Marburg today - very nice.
I will join the CSSB Symposium on May 7-8 in Hamburg: "Mechanisms of Infection - from structure to translation"
symposium2025.cssb-hamburg.de
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Biofilm architecture determines the dissemination of conjugative plasmids: We measured the spatiotemporal spread of plasmids in biofilms and found that plasmids only spread in some biofilm regions!
Collab with lab of @sbigot.bsky.social & Christian Lesterlin
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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ASM's podcast "This Week in Microbiology" discussed our peptidoglycan danger sensing manuscript in detail: It is a true joy to hear how the paper is perceived through someone else's eyes. The enthusiasm of the speakers is amazing.
[From 20 min onwards:] asm.org/Podcasts/TWi...
The Eurovision Song Contest final will take place in my *Basel* tomorrow.
After watching thisπ, I realized it will be outstanding. There are only 36 other songs to watch. 12 points for Estonia.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=F3ws...
Knut Drescher
Knut Drescher
Knut Drescher
Plasmid conjugation is a contact-dependent horizontal gene transfer mechanism that
significantly contributes to the dissemination of antibiotic res...
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Biozentrum, University of Basel
The discovery of microbial enzymes, PETases, that can degrade ubiquitous plastics, and how exogenous peptidoglycan is a danger signal to trigger biofilm formation.
